Improved buckle



PEEEGRIN E WHITE.

BUCKLE I Pa/uented July. 4, 1865-.

Fly-4 UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

PEREGRINE WHITE, OF DIXMQNT CENTRE, MAINE.

IMPROVED- BUCKLE.

Specification forming part'of Letters Patent No. 48,610, dated July 4, 1865.

To all'whom z'tmay concern: I

Bexit known that l, PEREGRINE WHITE, of

Y Dixmont Centre, in the county of Penobscot nying drawings, of which Figure 1 Isatop View, Fig.2 an end elevation,Fig. 3 a longitudinal section, and Fig. 42. front end elevation, of it.

In the said drawings, A denotes the frame of the buckle, which is an open loop,provided with across-bar, B. Over the said cross-bar there is arranged, between standards 8 8 projecting upward ,from the frame, an eccentric roller, O-that is, a roller having its shaft a or its journals eccentric relative to the axis of the roller. Two or any other suitable number of spurs, b b, are projected from the roller at its part of greatest eccentricity. The journals of the roller are supported in the standards s s. r

' The strap or article to which the buckle so made is to be fastened when in use is to be attached to its loop or bar (I. The other strap is' to be passed between the roller 0 and'the bar'D, and the roller is to be turned on the strap and towardthe bar d, so as to cause the spurs to enter the strap. On pulling the strap in an opposite direction the roller will turn and bind the strap between it and the bar underneath it, and in so doing will hold the strap Having described my invention, what 1 claim, and'desire to have secured tome by 

